Quotes About Prevention

If most auto accidents happen within five miles of home, why not move ten miles away?

Value in health care is determined in addressing the patient's particular medical condition over the full cycle of care, from monitoring and prevention to treatment to ongoing disease management.

simple things like taking an aspirin a day, drinking a glass of red wine with dinner, and taking the right vitamins in the proper amounts are quick, easy, and painless ways to make your cardiovascular system healthier.

Looking younger starts with not smoking and limiting unprotected sun exposure. But try as you might to protect your skin, it is programmed to thin at a rate of one percent per year after age 30.

132) Lips sealed In order to prevent early leaks

For disease prevention, berries of all colors have "emerged as champions," according to the head of the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory.39 The purported anticancer properties of berry compounds have been attributed to their apparent ability to counteract, reduce, and repair damage resulting from oxidative stress and inflammation.40 But it wasn't known until recently that berries may also boost your levels of natural killer cells.

Back in 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the "doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of [the] human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.

To become virtually heart-attack proof, you need to get your LDL cholesterol at least under 70 mg/dL.

Fighting the Blues with Greens Here's a statistic you probably haven't heard: Higher consumption of vegetables may cut the odds of developing depression by as much as 62 percent.26 A review in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience concluded that, in general, eating lots of fruits and veggies may present "a non-invasive, natural, and inexpensive therapeutic means to support a healthy brain.

While the pathology of stroke and Alzheimer's are different, one key factor unites them: Mounting evidence suggests that a healthy diet may help prevent them both.

With diets Westernizing globally, Alzheimer's rates are expected to continue to increase, writes one researcher in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, "unless dietary patterns change to those with less reliance on animal products.…

Though the majority of lung cancer is attributed to smoking, approximately a quarter of all cases occur in people who've never smoked.21 Although some of these cases are due to secondhand smoke, another contributing cause may be another potentially carcinogenic plume: fumes from frying.

One of the most important medical discoveries in recent years was the realization that inflammation appears to play a role in many of our chronic diseases, including at least eight of our top ten leading causes of death.

The only way to truly stop a pandemic, it has been suggested, is to stamp it out at its source.2380 Once it starts, as noted the editorial board of the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, "School closure, quarantine, travel restrictions and so on are unlikely to be more effective than a garden hose in a forest fire.

Many governments see it [disease prevention] as an internal business," said the WHO's director-general. "There is a basic gut feeling that this is my problem, I will deal with it in my way. Now, in a globalized world, any disease is one airplane away. It is not a provincial or national issue, it's a global issue.

reactive protein levels in the blood are ideally under 1 mg/L,

But in a society where it's normal to die of heart disease, having a "normal" cholesterol level is probably not a good thing.

Those randomized to even just thirty seconds a day of a cold-water blast ended up taking off fewer sick days from work.3484 Foods

A doctor a day may keep the apples away.

With so many different coronaviruses circulating among so many different species, it is considered likely a matter of when, not if, the next recombinant coronavirus will emerge and burst into the human population.119

Developing diabetes in childhood appears to cut life expectancy by about twenty years.32 Who among us wouldn't go to the ends of the earth to enable our kids to live two decades longer?

reduction in sick days. And it has only good side effects. What is it? Exercise.51 What's more, it doesn't take much of a workout to get results. Studies find that if you let kids run around for just six minutes, the levels of immune cells circulating in their blood increases by nearly 50 percent.52 At the other end of the life cycle, regular exercise can also help prevent age-related immune

against such respiratory-tract infections as pneumonia and influenza.55 Moderate exercise may be all it takes to boost IgA levels and significantly reduce the chance of coming down with flu-like symptoms. Compared to a sedentary control group, those who performed aerobic exercises for thirty minutes three times a week for twelve weeks had a 50 percent increase in the levels of IgA in their saliva and reported significantly fewer

Most people with multiple myeloma live for only a few years after diagnosis. Though treatable, multiple myeloma is considered incurable. That's why prevention is key. Fortunately, dietary changes may reduce our risk of all these blood cancers.